The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
Quotations
Silence
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
When the world is too loud, silence is my only voice.
-Nouf Alfadl
There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.
-Cecelia Ahern
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Great souls suffer in silence.
-Friedrich Schiller
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
